2002 – 2003
MA, History
York University – Toronto, Canada
Major Research Paper: “The Emergence of Botany and the Knowledge of Plants: Nature and Creation in the Sixteenth Century.”Supervisor: Richard C. Hoffmann
Second Reader: Thomas V. Cohen
Degree Conferred: May 2004

2001 – 2002
Special Student, Masters Programme History
York University – Toronto, Canada

July 2014
Keynote Speaker: “Diamonds, Death, and Flowers: Jewelry Genres in Renaissance Portraits”
Instructor: “Victorian Jewelry: A Cultural History of the Rational and the Romantic”
37th Annual Antique Jewelry and Art Conference
West Harrison, New York

April 2014
Invited Lecturer: “Blast from the Past: 1950s Atomic Age Jewelry”
Christie’s Education
New York, New York

July 2012
Instructor: “Three Centuries of Style: Jewelry from Baroque to Art Deco”
35th Annual Antique Jewelry and Art Conference
Westchester, New York

April 2012
Invited Lecturer: “No.115 Piccadilly, London: The Revivalist Jewelry of Carlo Giuliano and the Victorian Culture of Curiosity”
Christie’s Education
New York, New York

July 2001
Keynote Speaker: “Influence of Ancient Cultures on Jewelry” and “Jewelry and its Relationship to the Decorative Arts”
22nd Annual Antique and Period Jewelry and Gemstone Conference
Long Island, New York

July 2012
Panelist: “Colonial Chymistry: The Case of John Allin, Minister-Physician in Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1680-1683”
2012 Three Societies Meeting: 7th Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society.
Philadelphia, USA

April 2012
Presenter: “The Sight and Sound of Alchemy: Michael Maier’s Emblem Book Atalanta fugiens (1617)”
symposium: IFA-Frick Symposium on the History of Art
New York, USA

November 2011
Panelist (and session organizer): “The Chymical Cleric: Science, Theology, and the Professional Life of John Allin in England and America (1623-1683)”
History of Science Society 2011 Annual Meeting
Cleveland, USA

September 2011
Presenter: “The Laboratory Construct of John Allin, Puritan Alchemist in Restoration London”
University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) International Conference Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment.
Cambridge, UK

January 2011
Invited Lecturer: “Treasure in the Archives: Researching the Life and Times of John Allin, Puritan Alchemist in England and America (1623-1683)”
Queen’s University (Canada) Bader International Study Centre, Herstmonceux Castle
East Sussex, UK

April 2010
Panelist: “Emblematic Impressions: The Use of Wax Seals in the John Allin Correspondence, 1663 -1674”
Renaissance Society of America 56th Annual Meeting
Venice, Italy

Invited Lecturer: “A Circle of Friends: The Story of John Allin, Samuel Jeake and Philip Frith in Restoration Rye”
Rye Castle Museum
East Sussex, UK